Unthinkable

Review By : Amiya Ranjan Chakraborty


REALLY UNTHINKABLE

You don't wanna watch this movie if you are too sensitive. This movie is a story of a white American muslim, who claims to have planted three nuclear bombs in large cities of the US, threatening to kill millions. He is interrogated and tortured by an 'agent' who uses every possible mean to crack him into revealing the location of the bombs. It's a hard and brutal 'game', which challenges ever possible definition of right and wrong, as well as lawful versus criminal behaviours: how far would you go, based on a 1% chance the the bombs really exist and may kills millions, to protect those? And when even the most brutal acts of torture don't break your subject, what becomes the next 'unthinkable' boundary of human decency, which marks the difference between the terrorists and the order?

The scenes in the movie are really intense and won't recommend anybody to watch this movie that can't stand gory movies. Some of the scenes are so intense that you,yourself would want to jump into the movie and stop what is happening.The directors really did a commendable job in making this movie so well. The main roles were well defined and couldn't have asked better from these fine actors. Some of the scenes I would totally disagree with and thought the director could have done without them to save this movie to be released only on DVDs .On the other hand I think removing those scenes wouldn't have brought the intended message that the director wanted to give. But really it was one sided message and there could have been different message given in the end, like what if the person revealed the complete information but torturing continues since the person who is torturing thinks there is more to come. Actually I was relieved in the end that some of the scenes in the end that I thought may have happened didn't happen.

My Rating: 9/10